• storm_shadow@piefed.social
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    10 days ago

    As if it wasn’t de facto legal already. There’s a reason they’ve been bringing them to russia for decades. This is just theater.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOP
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      10 days ago

      It does make you wonder how Canada doesn’t spot thousands of stolen cars being loaded onto boats, or if they do spot them, why they don’t intervene.

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        It doesn’t happen at the docks. They get loaded into shipping containers on trucks and on freight trains, so by the time it gets to the ship, it’s well hidden. And they don’t get on a ship bound for Russia either. The destination is more likely China or the Baltics.

        Docks don’t have time to x-ray everything so some always get through, especially the ones where well-practised crime has generated authentic looking documentation for what’s supposed to be in the container.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social
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        Canada’s ports export 6.4 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) per year so a couple thousand cars in them are basically a needle in the haystack.

        This is how drug smuggling and human trafficking happens basically untouched too.

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    Interesting that we’re (Canada) included but not the US. Wonder what possible reason there could be for that